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Live fire Civil War artillery exercise
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:08 am
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:08 am
This video is from 1990 but is without a doubt one of the best Civil War live fire demonstrations on the web. Two cameras. One was positioned down range just beyond the target, the other was positioned on the hill behind the artillery position. I just love the sound the shell makes as it's traveling through the air and exploding. This is what our ancestors heard as they charged into the mouth of hell 150+ years ago.
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Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:12 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:15 am to RollTide1987
:confederateflagwaving:
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:18 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:20 am to RollTide1987
Except there would be dozens of them firing as rapidly as possible. Little know fact but one the best artillery units in the Confederate Army was out of NewO. Cant recall the name.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:24 am to GREENHEAD22
I believe you are referring to the Washington Artillery.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:25 am to GREENHEAD22
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one of the best artillery units of the Confederate army was out of New Orleans
Hope they didn't have any statues or monuments they were full of hate that's why they were so accurate.
That was sarcasm for all the bullshite that these groups that are making anything dealing with the confederacy a crime now. frick them all. This is our ancestors and they were all Americans no matter what they were fighting for.
This post was edited on 10/1/15 at 12:30 am
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:27 am to RollTide1987
That sound alone would've made me grease ma britches
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:30 am to FLBooGoTigs1
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they were all Americans no matter what they were fighting for.
Confederates are also considered U.S. veterans and are allowed to be buried in national cemeteries.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 12:38 am to FLBooGoTigs1
actually in metairie cemetary they have a monument to the washington artillery
Posted on 10/1/15 at 1:23 am to tigersownall
Got me in the mood to listen to Jay Ungar's Ashokan Fairwell. Damn I love that song.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 2:30 am to RollTide1987
My grandfather told the story of when his great uncle would visit during my grandfather's childhood. The great uncle was a Civil War veteran and and later in his life was old and half senile. As he had no family left of his own, all the relatives would each take care of him for a few months. This was in the days before nursing homes.
When staying with my grandfather's family, they would let him sit out on the front porch during good weather to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. But there was a saw mill at the bottom of the hill. When the mill was using a small locomotive to connect the empty log cars, it would bang them together to get the couplings to secure.
The great uncle would hear this banging and would think it was artillery starting up. He would start yelling to his men to get ready for the 'battle' and the family would have to take him inside to calm him down until the log train left.
Some things stay with you forever.
When staying with my grandfather's family, they would let him sit out on the front porch during good weather to enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. But there was a saw mill at the bottom of the hill. When the mill was using a small locomotive to connect the empty log cars, it would bang them together to get the couplings to secure.
The great uncle would hear this banging and would think it was artillery starting up. He would start yelling to his men to get ready for the 'battle' and the family would have to take him inside to calm him down until the log train left.
Some things stay with you forever.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 3:04 am to Coeur du Tigre
My ex wife's grandfather(world war 2 vet died when he was 92) told some great stories also. His own story was a good one he was aboard a aircraft carrier and they getting hit by Japanese komakazis, he and his men were on the the carrier deck clearing debris with fires raging everywhere. He picked up a Japanese komakazis ear. He would always show it to us in a jar filled with formaldehyde. He also told us that his grandfather as a young lad growing up iin southern Georgia would play piano for union troops as they made their way thru and he would get paid for doing it. After my ex's grandfather passed I came to appreciate his storytelling that much more.
Posted on 10/1/15 at 5:06 am to tigersownall
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actually in metairie cemetary they have a monument to the washington artillery
The best part about those monuments is that Half Moon can't threaten to take those down... They're in a private cemetery...
And some, in Greenwood and Metairie, can be seen perfectly right from the expressway...
I still can't believe he didn't threaten to take down the cannon honoring the Washington Artillery across from the Cathedral.
This post was edited on 10/1/15 at 6:10 am
Posted on 10/1/15 at 6:00 am to RollTide1987
Washington Artillery........ Try Us!!!!
Posted on 10/1/15 at 6:20 am to Bourre
A few years back some re-enactors had an artillery demonstration at the Catfish Festival in Washington. It was very cool to see.
They were only firing blanks, but it was damn loud. I can only imagine if they had been firing solids or grapeshot.
LC
They were only firing blanks, but it was damn loud. I can only imagine if they had been firing solids or grapeshot.
LC
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